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[danuv]

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I'll try not to post too many of these. Sometimes I just get overwhelmed by the wee baby cuteness. It's natures way of balancing the enormous amount of frustration he causes when he won't stop fussing for hours every evening.

Completely (almost) unrelated baby factoid: The more expensive the cloth diaper the quicker Jack will poo in it and the more bountiful said poo will be. Prefolds will go unpoo'ed for hours but the moment the gorgeous softness of a $33 Goodmama diaper hits his arse .... Well at least the boy has good taste.

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[danuv.livejournal.com]

I wash at home. There are no diaper services left in Atlanta. It's really very simple and only adds a few small loads of laundry a week.

Supposedly the studies that say that cloth diapers are no more environmentally friendly than disposibles were done by the disposable diaper industry and are total bunk. If you think about it it doesn't really make sense. Otherwise we should switch to disposable everything to avoid having to wash. I've read that the studies didn't bother to take into account the LARGE amount of water/chemicals used in manufacturing disposable diapers even the greener ones.

Lots of people use HE front loading washers on their cloth as well as greener detergents. You have to do a little reading about which ones are ok for diapers and which ones aren't but it's pretty simple (some leave build up which can mess with the absorbency).

[shara.livejournal.com]

I think the study she cited was comparing disposable vs. cloth that were washed by a diaper service - which apparently use TONNES of bleach and what have you to wash the little buggers. My parents offered to get me a diaper service, but if I can do it, I'd rather just, you know, scrape 'em off and throw em in the laundry...

[danuv.livejournal.com]

That makes more sense. Really doing them at home is super eady and no scraping involved until you start solid food if you breastfeed. You just toss it all in. Breastfed baby poo is very soft (runny even) and washes up easily. Sounds gross but isn't really. :) Plus there are so many different kinds of diapers these days that to limit yourself to service prefolds is no fun!

[shara.livejournal.com]

I have my heart set on these little bamboo ones. ;)

[danuv.livejournal.com]

Those look cozy!

Not to totally overwhelm you with links or anything... but www.diaperpin.com/diapers/ has reviews of various diapers and diaper companies and http://www.diaperswappers.com/ has been an invaluable resource for me to learn about cloth diapers and to buy second hand.

We're using a combination of prefolds from http://www.greenmountaindiapers.com/diapers.htm where they also sell unbleached prefolds, these: http://www.kissaluvs.com/fitted-diapers.html and a couple of newborn sized Mutts http://muttaqinbaby.com/diapers.html which I love and would have gotten more of if they'd been easier to come by.

The plan is to transition to Goodmama one size diapers (http://www.thegoodmama.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=71_80 ) which are made with the softest squishiest organic velor you can imagine and should last us till potty training and also prefolds because they are cheap and easy. I may pick up some one size Mutts too. We're loving wool though, used as covers over the fitted diapers and prefolds. For the winter we're using knitted pants that diaper people call longies and I'm starting to pick up some trimmer covers that can go under clothes. It's just so much nicer than the 'plastic pant' type covers.

Sorry for the info flood. :)